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Can I Strip Myself of the Network of Language?

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So we have to enquire: What is action? Right? What do we mean by that word 'action', whether you are married, whether you are not married, whether you are in the office, whether you are fairly well off and independent and so on and so on and so on, what is the correct thing to do in my life, facing all this, not according to any pattern - obviously, that is not correct action - not based on certain ideologies, that also is not correct action because those ideologies are projected by thought, clever, cunning thought. And action based according to certain authority, whether religious, political or your own particular authority based on your own experience and knowledge, that is not correct action either. Please understand all this because if you base your action on your own experience then your experience is very limited, and you are constantly demanding greater and greater and greater experience, which is greater and greater sensation, not experience. The word 'experience' means to go through, finish with something. And action based on a past conclusion, however right, however worthy, but it is still from the past and therefore still limited in terms of time. Or if your action is based on a future conclusion, on a future ideology or a future ideal, that again is not correct action because you have projected the ideal, what you should be, or what your country should be, or what your group should be, and act according to what should be, therefore you are not acting at all. Action implies doing something now, independent of the past and the future


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